{"140571":{"#nid":"140571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Former MIT \u2018Borgs\u2019 Still Back Wearable Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIf you frequented Kendall Square in the 1990s, you may have encountered one of the pioneers of wearable computing, students who ambled around Cambridge wearing special goggles with built-in cameras and display screens, toted computers in backpacks and messenger bags, and palmed special one-handed keypads so they could enter data. Sprouting wires everywhere, they looked like cyborgs late for a Halloween party.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner (Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech)\u003C\/strong\u003E was part of the bunch, who called themselves the \u201cborgs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022It was clear to me that this was going to be a lifestyle that was compelling,\u0022 says Starner, who began wearing a computer and display regularly in 1993. \u0022Wherever I was, I could\u0026nbsp;pull up local maps. I would learn stuff from having hallway conversations with other researchers, and I had a system that let me take notes to remember what they said.\u0022 The rest of us, however, just weren\u2019t ready to don computers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2012-07-16 16:50:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:33","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-07-15\/business\/32664324_1_microoptical-wearable-head-mounted-displays","title":"Source: Boston.com"}],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}